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Kutch, Rann of
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Kutch, Rann of 

the Greater and the Lesser, salt marshes(swamps) in western India and in Pakistan, southeast of the Indus River delta. Area, more than 20, 000 sq km; total length from east to west, more than 300 km; width, 40–80 km. The Rann of Kutch is a flat, low-lying surface with a maximumelevation of 200 m, and it is covered with black silt and salineef florescence. In places there are rises (maximum 465 m) withsteep slopes and sandy hills. During the summer monsoons, theRann of Kutch is flooded by the sea and the Banas and Lunirivers. [11–1647-3 ]



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The Meteorological Department said the epicentre of Friday's earthquake was in an area 20 km (13 miles) north-east of Bhuj in the marshy and sparsely populated Rann of Kutch, which lies on the border with Pakistan.
Once part of the Arabian Sea, the seabed of the Rann of Kutch was converted into a salt desert by geological forces.
Armed standoffs and conflict with Pakistan have arisen in 1965, 1971, and have continued as a stalemate since 1997 with respect to disputed Kashmir, Indus River water sharing, and the Rann of Kutch terminus.
 
 
 
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